The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-03-17
DR.. Higdon Answered.

For THE CITIZEN.
A man whose home was at Lynn
Vile, and whose recent death cloth
ed that community in heavy dra-
perry of woe and darkness, once
said that in every one there
was more or less dog. To this
natural proclivity add the result of
an ernest desire of a man in power
ty, who by patient industry and
economy, first sought to obtain a
competency, and this secured, went
on until he becomes one of the list
of property holders in his neighbor
hood, and you have the disease
with which DR.. d. K. Higdon of
Lynnville is seriously and danger
ously afflicted. Now, doctor, come
out of that old snail shell of selfish
ness, and cast about and see if you
are not truly ashamed of the record
you are making. Suppose the l..
N. & Great Southern R. R. to be
only the Louisville d Nashville, and
in 1857, you with the rest of the
tax paying people of Giles had been
taxed to build a trunk line from
Cincinnati to Sheffield and Vicks-
burg, via Pulaski, and for all these
long weary thirty years, your prop
erty, your home, your life, had been
deprived of the railroad facilities
which you have enjoyed at the ex
pense of your neighbors in more
remote portions of the county
with Lynnville, like Bohemian,
Campbelisville, Brick Church, Bun
ker Hill and many other places in
this county, left in the backwood-
the value of your property would
to-day be nominal, compared to
its present value. Then imagine, if
you can, the late convention held
at Murfreesboro to have been at
Franklin, for the purpose of extend
ing the Louisville and Nashville to
Decatur and Birmingham, through
Lynnville, provided the counties
along the line would vote tax. In
that convention you found the coun
ties of Davidson, Williamson and
Maury on the north standing will
ing and ready to build the road
through their territory, while The
whole state of Alabama was stand
ing with open arms to receive the
road, and stood pledged to build i
to Birmingham. Then would DR.
David Knowledge Higdon be found
in this convention opposing the en-
terprise? Would he become th'
self constituted Waterman on the fl
nancial tower, In the interest of tn,
poor man? Would he be proclaim
ing from the house tops that i
would prove to be ruinous to thu
county of Giles to vote this tax
Nay, verify! Now, doctor, we full,
realize that self preservation is thu
first law of nature and that the in
fluence of money is to day dom!
more damage than inidelity, whis
XIV, Mormonism and all of the com
blned vices of the earth-still, VI
cannot see why man of your in
telligence and sound practical abil
ity and experience can be so blint
to his own interest, to say nothin:
of the interest of his country anC
his people, for way faring man
though a foop' can see that 1t i
pure selfish motives that make u
the position you assume with re
gard to the contemplated railroad
| Come out, doctor, come out of tn
darkness and gloom; come out G
the brush wood of self and let tn
higher. qualities Of your useful lif
assert themselves and become para
mount to this war-like spirit-thi
opposition to the railroad your let
tiers portray. The contemplated
road will not only bring an incalcu
liable blessing to the county, and a.
OF the now isolated portions of tn
county through which it will pass
but it will not damage you in th
least, but on the other hand vii
increase your railroad facilities b
giving an independent competin:
line, and thus reduce the rates O
travel .and freights on your roa'
| (which the whole county of Gle
was taxed to build to the plain o
reason, justice and honesty If yo
persist. if in the hardness of you
heart you will continue in your sir
then there is but one remedy-on
thing lett TO be done, which is t.
teach you another lesson whic
Lvnnyille has so often recited a
the recitation desk of the ballo
| box. r. A. F. JACKSON.